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Many cities across America have been busy reinventing and reinvigorating some of their long-neglected areas. Columbia has been working on one for several years and it appears that its time might be nigh. Mike Switzer interviews Sabrina Odom Edwards, executive director of the North Columbia Business Association.

Monobia quadridens, also known as the four-toothed mason wasp, is a species of solitary potter wasp found in North America. It grows to a wingspan of 18 millimetres (0.71 in), and feeds on small caterpillars and pollen. There are two generations per year, with one generation overwintering as pupae. It nests in a variety of cavities including tunnels abandoned by carpenter bees, old nests built by mud daubers, and hollow plant stems.

Aplysia fasciata, common name the "mottled sea hare", or the "sooty sea hare", is an Atlantic species of sea hare or sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae. This sea hare occurs in the Western Atlantic from New Jersey to Brazil, and in the Eastern Atlantic including the Mediterranean and the West African coast. They have also been sighted along the Atlantic coast of France.

Most business owners know that they need certain documents and policies to help them attain success and sustainability. But our next guest says that if you run a family business, you may want to look at these documents from a different perspective. Mike Switzer interviews Jon Robertson, a certified financial planner with Abacus Planning Group in Columbia, SC.

Agriculture is a major economic driver in our state, and our next guest’s government agency is working hard to keep it that way. Mike Switzer interviews William Shelley, farm loan chief for the SC Farm Service Agency state office, part of the US Dept. of Agriculture, in Columbia, SC.

In a famous letter to his father, Mozart once wrote, “you know I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument I cannot bear.”…

It probably wouldn’t surprise you to learn that people who are deaf or hard of hearing have lower rates of college-level education, which means lower paying jobs and higher rates of unemployment. Which is why our next guest’s organization is working to alleviate this situation. Mike Switzer interviews Mary Reaves, the director of programs at BeginningsSC in West Columbia, SC.

Now, if ever there was a musician who was entitled to say of a Bartók quartet, “This is the way it goes,” it was Robert Mann. He knew those quartets inside out, and had recorded them more than once.

This horse fly is active at dusk or dawn.

A pair of these birds came to occupy a nest box in a listener's yard.